y separately published work icon Colloquy : Text Theory Critique periodical issue   peer reviewed assertion
Alternative title: Un)Ethical Futures : Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... no. 35/36 December 2018 of Colloquy : Text Theory Critique est. 1996- Colloquy : Text Theory Critique
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2018 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Poetics of Size : Rendering Apocalyptic Scale in Nevil Shute’s On the Beach and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Eleanor Smith , single work criticism

'This article examines the textual rendering of space in Nevil Shute’s On the Beach (1957) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), two novels depicting the ancient trope of apocalypse. Contributing to the study of geography in literature, it argues that these authors manipulate perspective, language and content to distort the familiar shape of spatial units, creating story worlds that resonate with a crisis of scale. Inverting the spatial enlargement produced by globalisation, they depict societies ruined by a global network they cannot “cognitively map.” The consideration of scale is crucial to fully understanding the sense of crisis apparent in contemporary apocalyptic fiction, which manifests, in our era of global connectedness, as an anxiety about the extent of human activity.' (Publication abstract)

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Stranded Assets, Jason Nahrung , single work short story science fiction (p. 183-195)
A Branching Narrative, Kane Simpson , single work short story science fiction (p. 196-205)
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